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Windows 7: Computer Keeps Shutting Down without Going to Sleep

This is for Maxie, or anyone else who is willing to help. I can't get much help from the Windows 8 forum. But, I have a Windows 8.1 desktop that is shutting itself down automatically 30 minutes after the screen goes off. I have no idea what is wrong with it.

When I booted it up this morning, it booted up like it was in restart mode. But, I followed the instructions per the article and entered the command in the command prompt (admin). So, let's see how it does today. It went to sleep normally last night. It just booted up in restart mode.

shutting down vs. sleep modeI have an HP EliteBook 8440p with Win 7 Pro.
Every evening before I go to bed I shut down my computer and reboot it in the morning. My neighbour insists that shutting down and booting does more damage and causes more problems to a pc than putting it in sleep mode when not in use even right...

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BSOD Shutting Down and Putting Computer to sleep, Error 0x0000009fRecently I have been having problems with shutting down and putting my computer to sleep. I do not know the cause nor have I had this problem before. I sadly do not have the stop code parameter information but I do have the files made by the dm collector. All I know about this code is that it may...

BSOD Help and Support

Computer when put into sleep, ends up shutting off insteadWindows 7 professional 64 bit , i put my computer to sleep and it take about 1-2 min then my computer shuts off completely and i have to turn it on by pressing the power button, and windows starts and says windows did not shut down properly, restart normally or safe mode , command prompt, why...

shutting down sleepOn a brand new (two weeks max) Win 7 professional x64 system set up by Dell, on which...following a tutorial posted here...I disabled password log in at start up, when the computer is inactive for a while it will either ask for a password to come back or it freezes so that a soft boot is necessary...